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Israel’s powerful ultra-Orthodox parties could be squeezed out of Binyamin
Netanyahu’s next Government as the Prime Minister attempts to build a
coalition after being humbled at the polls.

The move would be a shock. The religious parties wield great influence in
Israeli life and politics and have only been excluded from Government once
before in the last 20 years.

Mr Netanyahu himself sees them as natural allies but his hand may be forced by
the message from voters on Tuesday, which saw his authority dramatically
weakened by big swings to new centrist and far Right parties.